Coenesque

George Wyner is an actor a lot like Adam Arkin and Richard Kind. He’s done a great deal of television work including Hill Street Blues, Doogie Howser, and LA Law. He’s also had a few notable Film appearances in Spaceballs and Fletch. In A Serious Man he plays Rabbi Natcher one of the 3 rabbi’s [...]

Michael Stuhlbarg is set to play Larry Gopnik the lead character in A Serious Man. Gopnik is a professor who’s life begins to unravel after his wife leaves him and his brother (Kind) won’t move out of his house. Stuhlbarg is a Tony-nominated actor who’s done some TV and film work to this point.

The second actor we’re looking at is Adam Arkin.  Like Richard Kind he’s had an extensive career in television.  He’s been featured in more than 80 films and tv series spanning his 40 year career.  Most recently seen in the now cancelled television series “Life”.  This son of Alan Arkin is playing the role of [...]

Every day or so I’ll be posting a little info on a member of the cast of the Coen Brothers next film. Today we’re taking a look at Richard Kind. I first saw him on the TV series Mad About You playing the husband of Jamie’s (Helen Hunt) friend. He starred in Spin City for [...]

Producer of “No Country for Old Men” Scott Rudin owns the film rights to Michael Chabon’s 2007 Book The Yiddish Policemen’s Union: A Novel (P.S.). It was announced last year that Joel and Ethan Coen will be adapting and directing the story for a 2010 release. This will be the second consecutive Coen Brothers film [...]

A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. [...]

The Highlights are Michael Stuhlbarg, Fred Melamed, Richard Kind, Aaron Wolf, Sari Wagner, Jessica McManus, Adam Arkin.  But you can see everybody on IMDB. A Serious Man

The latest Coen Brothers Film “A Serious Man” will be coming in 2009. Set in their childhood town of St. Louis Park, MN. Filing wrapped up in November 2008. It will be released sometime mid 2009. http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/movies/33945219.html?page=2&c=y

Word is “Hail, Caesar” is going to start shooting soon. This makes it official. Hopefully it can be ready for the end of the year. Following the story of a 1920′s theater troupe putting on, or trying at least, a production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”. George Clooney is the one source we have on this [...]

Empire Online is reporting that George Clooney is going to direct the Coen penned “Suburbicon”. Clooney is describing the script as “a really interesting, really funny, and very dark comedy.” Check out the full story www.empireonline.co.uk